Microforms

Latin American Microform and Other Resources

A Reference Guide to Latin American History
Alderman Reference F 1410 .H46 2000
Latin American history up through 1999 - politics and government, economics, and culture. Three sections: chronology of events, thematic chronology, 300 biographical entries. Selected bibliography
Foreign newspapers on microfilm at Alderman Library
Stanford University's Guide to Large Microform Sets on Latin America
This guide, arranged by country, lists holdings of Stanford University, the University of California, the University of Southern California, and the Center for Research Libraries. Alderman owns many of the titles listed at this site. To verify Alderman holdings of any microform set listed, search by title in the VIRGO catalog.
Latin American Resources
Broad range of subjects covered in this collection of links.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Library of Congress index to scholarly works in the humanitites and social sciences with coverage back to 1935. Authors and titles of books and journal articles indexed. Some full-text.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) - (1975-1993,1995-1998, Alderman Reference Z 6953.8. H36
Subject index to articles in over 400 key social science and humanitites journals. Most articles indexed from Spanish language journals, but French, English, Portuguese and Italian journals also indexed. Includes books reviews
The "Periodicals" section on the Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resources Pilot Project. Tables of contents from hundreds of periodicals from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are available at this site. To find out if any cited article from this database is available at Alderman, check VIRGO. Order articles unavailable at Alderman through Interlibrary Services.

Public Domain Databases from Molly Molloy's excellent web page on Latin American sources.

Example VIRGO searches to find Latin American microform titles. (Use VIRGO's Advanced Search)

latin adj america$ and (sources or history) and microf$
latin america [ or El Salvador, etc.] and microf$
(for this search, on search screen limit "Item Type" to "Document" to retrieve U.S. government document titles)